10 Prinsegracht. - Originally enclosing a new photograph of herself, wearing a green dress and Bob's 'favourite hat'. Had an excellent evening at the Piersons' last night; [the Joachim Quartet] played a late Beethoven quartet she had never heard before, which made her 'nearly jump into the sky', and then a Schumann one. Talked to [Joseph] Joachim; hopes they will meet him again, perhaps at Harold Joachim's family's house at Haslemere. Alice and Herbert Jones arrived this morning; since Herbert is returning home tonight he has done lots of sightseeing with her uncle, then Bessie took him to the Mauritshuis picture galley. She and Alice are going to the Joachim concert tonight. Felt 'quite schooly again' seeing them; they talked lots about Bob. The Joneses were staying in the same pension at Dresden as Lily Hodgkin and 'her brother (the Oxford one); the brother is studying German and Lily music; Lily wanted Alice to send her Bob's address so that she could send a wedding present. Herbert 'seemed rather astonished if not shocked' that the wedding was not to be in a church; supposes the idea is rather 'awful' for an English clergyman. He is 'very bright & cheerful... & humorous as ever', though she does not think he is 'ein feinfühlender Mensch [sensitive man]'.
39 Royal Terrace, Edinburgh, 7. - Would be 'great fun' to have [Peter] Rybar in Edinburgh next winter 'if it could be managed financially'; thinks he 'would get what he needs'. Tovey could not be responsible for violin technique, but thinks that 'timely occasional visits to [Carl] Flesch', who played in Edinburgh yesterday 'most gloriously', ought to be enough. Tired out by the effort of writing another letter to the "Times" about Eugenie Schumann's protest (about the appearance of her father's last concerto), though at least there is now no 'spookwhenyou'rspookentology' [a reference to the involvement of a séance in the discovery of the concerto] to deal with. In a postscript, Tovey notes that his students are 'now numerous & really musical', and that things are in general better than in Johannes [Röntgen]'s time; thinks Rybar would benefit from the students as well as help them.